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... dark heath , or rather like an Oasis in the Arabian deserts : not that I think the wild heaths deserts ; to me they out- shine all rich scenery : hills of every shape rising around , with heather bells in full bloom as far as the eye ...
... dark heath , or rather like an Oasis in the Arabian deserts : not that I think the wild heaths deserts ; to me they out- shine all rich scenery : hills of every shape rising around , with heather bells in full bloom as far as the eye ...
Page 47
... dark eye Sparkled with clearer brilliancy . Her wasted snowy arm no more Its former rounded beauty wore , But every azure vein within Shone through the soft transparent skin ; The touching charm , the pensive grace , Diffused around her ...
... dark eye Sparkled with clearer brilliancy . Her wasted snowy arm no more Its former rounded beauty wore , But every azure vein within Shone through the soft transparent skin ; The touching charm , the pensive grace , Diffused around her ...
Page 61
... dark eclipse of sorrow ? But what had God been without a Saviour ? a Being as far removed from our thoughts as from our comprehension ; a Being brought into contact with our feelings , in no possible way . Myste- rious union ! yet in ...
... dark eclipse of sorrow ? But what had God been without a Saviour ? a Being as far removed from our thoughts as from our comprehension ; a Being brought into contact with our feelings , in no possible way . Myste- rious union ! yet in ...
Page 76
... dark green , which could be hardly distinguished ; almost all the rest of the room was indistinct , for a rushlight alone illumined it , and that stood on a table close to the bed : the light seemed to have gathered round the figure ...
... dark green , which could be hardly distinguished ; almost all the rest of the room was indistinct , for a rushlight alone illumined it , and that stood on a table close to the bed : the light seemed to have gathered round the figure ...
Page 77
... dark melancholy eyes ; and a high white forehead , parting from the highest centre of which a profusion of long dark hair fell in large shining rings . Naomi had ceased speak- ing , when she turned round , and opened a Bible which lay ...
... dark melancholy eyes ; and a high white forehead , parting from the highest centre of which a profusion of long dark hair fell in large shining rings . Naomi had ceased speak- ing , when she turned round , and opened a Bible which lay ...
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Page 52 - Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Page 115 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 197 - Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Page 103 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Page 155 - Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both.
Page viii - Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched : yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast.
Page 59 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 219 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the hill of heavenly truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast...
Page xiv - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ersluide The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 128 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.